This was my first post in June 2005 (Lactnet was 10 years old back then). Seemed appropriate to post again.

"Breastfeeding is a natural "safety net" against the worst effects of
poverty. If the child survives the first month of life (the most dangerous
period of childhood) then for the next four months or so, exclusive
breastfeeding goes a long way toward canceling out the health difference
between being born into poverty and being born into affluence .... It is
almost as if breastfeeding takes the infant out of poverty for those first
few months in order to give the child a fairer start in life and
compensate for the injustice of the world into which it was born."

--James P. Grant, former Executive Director, UNICEF

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